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SUBMISSIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

Members of the public sent to the Assembly a total of 1,603 public submissions during the 13 months ended 27 September 2004. And you can access them all lower down on this page.

Incidentally, the numbers on the submissions appear to show that there are 1,669 of them. After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603. Unfortunately, we cannot renumber the submissions to reflect that.

If a posted submission is dated after 27 September, that date refers to the date the submission was processed and posted to the website, not the date it was received. 

To help you navigate through the 1,603 submissions received from the public, here are:
  1. An introduction to the submissions, available as a Word document (40KB) or as a PDF document (110KB).
  2. A link to the View Submissions page, where you can read and/or search 1,603 submissions
  3. A complete list of the submissions and their abstracts, available as an Excel spreadsheet (472KB) or as a PDF (348KB)
  4. A guide to the longer submissions (i.e., 80 submissions that run four or more pages in length). This guide is available as a Word document (36KB) or as a PDF file (96KB).
  5. A list of the 80 longer submissions, indexed by electoral system and including abstracts. This list is available as an Excel spreadsheet (40KB) or as a PDF item (90KB).

Submission List

To read a submission in full, click on the submitter's name/number
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ROBB-1403

Parties with a different approach to the mainstream parties should have an opportunity in the legislature to have voice & vote.  MLAs, every two months, must address the constituency they represent in person at a town hall meeting. [1 page]
Category: Democratic government, Electoral system change
Author: Donald Robb
Date: Aug 26, 2004

MOORE-1402

The reason for electoral reform in part is that members and parties get elected with less than 50% of the vote.  The solution is to have run-off elections in ridings where no one has 50% of the vote, similar to the French system. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Gary Moore
Date: Aug 26, 2004

DE VRIES-1401

'I hope you will recommend changes to make our current electoral system democratic'.  [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Frits de Vries
Date: Aug 25, 2004

STEWART-1400

We must have better representation: too many votes are wasted; too many people vote for second choices because a vote for their first choice would be wasted; too many people don't vote at all because it wouldn't make any difference. [1 page]
Category: Citizens' Assembly process, Electoral system change
Author: Kathleen Stewart
Date: Aug 25, 2004

MCCONNELL-1399

The PR system of voting is the only hope for democracy in BC.  The whole range of views of all of our citizens is not fairly represented in the legislature.  At the moment, we do not even have an official opposition. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Janet McConnell
Date: Aug 25, 2004

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